Monthly Archives: August, 2017

Five challenges facing NFV

NFV growing pains Several operators are jumping on board the network functions virtualization (NFV) bandwagon. It promises to provide service providers with the speed and...

Smart lighting is the ultimate IoT platform

Smart lighting helps cities save energy, lower costs and reduce maintenance. Automation and networked control can further increase energy savings and reduce maintenance spending Smart...

Cisco completes $610 million Viptela acquisition

Cisco purchases Viptela as part of SD-WAN strategy Cisco completed its $610 million acquisition of Viptela Inc., a privately held software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN)...

Verizon taps LAA to hit 953 Mbps in ‘commercial’ deployment

Verizon used four-channel carrier aggregation, including unlicensed spectrum, to approach theoretical limit of gigabit LTE Gigabit LTE is a hot topic, but, in live network...

Sigfox expands U.S. operation with new office in Dallas

Sigfox's new facility will allow the French company to expand its local network team French provider of connectivity for the internet of things (IoT) Sigfox...

Aeris, Wisepill improve medication management via IoT

Wisepill Technologies has developed smart pillboxes to provide real-time medication management solutions Aeris, an U.S.-based provider of end-to-end M2M communications and IoT service provider and...

Libelium’s technology helps protect mussels in the Ohio River

U.S. firm Aridea Solutions has selected the Spanish firm to deploy sensors for mussel protection Spanish wireless sensor maker Libelium is currently involved in a...

Unable to pay creditors, backhaul firm DragonWave enters receivership

Microwave backhaul specialist DragonWave delisted from from TSX and NASDAQ; board of director resigns Once a significant player in the microwave backhaul space, Ottawa, Canada-based...

#TBT: Keeping it in the family (plan), opening up the walled garden … this month in 2005

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire...

Glenn Lurie set to leave AT&T

When AT&T announced executive changes earlier this week, one key member of the management team was not mentioned. Employees, suppliers and customers waited to...

Reality Check: In the data center space, telcos are no longer answering the call

It is an interesting time for companies that choose to house their IT infrastructure in data centers owned and operated by large telecommunications (telco)...

Opinion: Taking a stand for better broadband

According to the FCC’s own 2016 Broadband Progress Report, 39% of Americans living in rural areas lack access to ‘superfast’ broadband, leaping to 41%...

Keysight combines cellular and Wi-Fi testing

Keysight's $1.6 billion purchase of Ixia is already bearing fruit. The combined company has announced a new emulation system that it says is the...

Analyst Angle: Cradlepoint NetCloud Platform – 4G-LTE routers and cloud-delivered services

Enterprises in multiple sectors such as retail, transportation, healthcare and manufacturing are connecting infrastructures and facilities into their IT environments more completely now than...

Discussing 5G spectrum on Capitol Hill

Along with my colleague Alice Tornquist, I was on Capitol Hill in July speaking at an event sponsored by the Congressional Spectrum Caucus, a...

Analyst Angle: Who is the world’s largest chip vendor?

The speculation is finally over: But does the semiconductor industry have a new market share revenue leader? It depends how you look at the...

Schneider Electric, WaterForce launch smart farm solution

The new cloud-based smart farm solution was built on Microsoft Azure and Azure IoT technologies Schneider Electric, which specializes in energy management and automation solutions,...

GridPoint partners with Bell on smart energy management solutions

Through the new deal, the Canadian telco will offer energy management as a service Virginia-based GridPoint has partnered with Canadian telecom firm Bell to deliver...

AT&T announces partnership with Elemental Machines

Elemental Machines wants to bring the internet of things to the world of scientific research. The company's sensors monitor critical laboratory and production equipment,...

Packet launches edge compute service in 15 global locations

 Packet seeks to provide developers an un-opinionated infrastructure Packet, a New York-based startup that specializes in bare metal infrastructure, recently launched its new edge compute...

Congress tries to legislate IoT security

In an effort to protect the U.S. government from hackers, a group of senators has introduced a bill that would legislate specific security measures...

The building blocks of gigabit LTE

4x4 MIMO + carrier aggregation + 256 QAM = gigabit LTE In what Peter Carson, senior director of marketing, Qualcomm Technologies, dubbed an international "speed...

Verizon continues fiber investments portending key role in 5G

Between acquisitions and supplier deals, Verizon has spent more than $3 billion on fiber--this year It's difficult to state just how valuable fiber optic assets...

Seven advantages of SDN

How SDN is benefiting telecom operators Software-defined networking (SDN) is a budding technology shaping the telecom industry. The architecture enables network behavior to be centrally...

Analyst Angle: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Edgeline 4000 Converged Edge System

Advances in IoT and broadband mobile with LTE and 5G, and cloud-native computing in scalable, high performance applications have stimulated the development of a...
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